, 1887-07-21

Tie conference decided to make an
active fight for delegates 10 the state
convention IL every one Of tue Torty
counties that have not Yet chosen
any. and introduce 4 resolution n the
convention endorsing Sherman.
Should the resolution fail 10 pass
Sherman viii Withdraw from the race
for the presidency, ard he has said
80 himself. The relations between
Foraker aud Sherman are uudoubted-
" strained 1t has become generally
known that Foraker favors Blaine.
Ben Butler has been giving his
views On the flag business. He is
amazed that the president found 10
man in his cabinet who knew enough
10 tell him that he had no right to
issue an order Of this kind. He says,
Of course the president did not know
any better himself, for he had not
been properly educated. but there
was Eadicott from Massachusetts,
who ought to have known something
and Villas, an old soldier. He Is not
surprised that Bayard and Lamar
aud Garlaud held their tongues, but
Endieott and Villas have certainly
surprised him. 1t IS said that Walls
has the bee IN his bOunet and may
not have been aveTse to seeing Gro
yer make q wreck Of himself, but
what possesses EndicOtt TO withhold
his warming? As the matter is be
yond Ben's conjecture it is hardly
worth while for the rest OF us to
hazard i s,.sss.
Biiou, the great pet elephant who
has for two years been on exhibition
in the Worlds Museum on Wash
ington street. Boston. and previously
was resident of the Central Park
menagerie in New York, is dead
This animal is the Oldest and had
been in captivity longer than any
other elephant ever on exhibition.
Bijou has been il this country for
sixty years, and while he is known to
be 10 years old, the probabilities are
that he Was born nearly hundred
years ago. Recently he had suffered
greatly f-'om old age, and his efforts
to stand up aud receive cakes and
candies from visitors at the museum,
Is he used 10, were painful in the ex-
tremo. In the last two wseks his
massive legs refused TO support the
weight OF his huge body, and his at
tempts to respond to the call of his
old trainer wcrs Very affecting. He
would try to raise himself on his
knees. and then reaching his trunk
toward his keeper, the huge beast
would settle back and noun.
Joseph AIcHenry, draughtsman on
the United States coast survey steam
er Patterson, writing from Portage
bay, Alaska, about glaciers and bay
that IS seldom If ever visited by tour
ISIS, says: Capt. Thomas has named
the glacier and bay where we were in
the ice pack Leconte glacier and bay
after Prof. Joseph Leconte, of the
university of California. The glacier
is about the same size as the Patter-
son glacier, which is fifteen miles to
the nCrthward The latter, however,
does not come to the water, whereas
the LecOnte glacier empties right into
the bay, discharging immense ice
bergs all the time, which drift out
with the tide and down the straits to
Point Agassiz, twenty miles to the
northward. 1t was supposed that the
ice came from Patterson glacier, but
that one does not come within four
miles of the waters edge. The Le-
conte Is the most important, as it is
the most southern glacier on the
Et MI. Tal - 81,
On the 2S,h of June, while working
on tn" shore line survey IN Icy bay,
the Patterson's steam launch got
iammcd in ice. 1t was regular are
tic scene. The whole bay was filed
with pack ice from the g.acier. The
bergs varied in size from small Jumps
foot square to immense fellows as
big as three-story bull ling.
A general principle of long stand
ing and considerable importance in
the administration of public land
matters is re-affirmed by Acting
Secretary Muldrow in his ruling on
the case of James Young's homestead
entry in Salt Lake City. Its purport
is that no amount of cultivation and
improvement, and no showing of good
faith IN other respects, can atone for
lack of actual residence on land
sought to be secured, and that even
actual residence does not give validity
to claim, except in 80 far as it shows
an intention to make such residence
permanent beyond the requirement
of title. Young had cultivated fifty
acres OF his claim, constructed irri
eating bitches and built n house in
which he personally lived. His i'm
provements are valued at from $1,000
to Sl2GO. His family remained upon
! the place owned by him, half mile
distant, and it was in evidence that
he designed to abandon his claim as
place of residence as soon as he had
made his tile secure. A contest was
made by VanNosirum, a profession
al contestant, who proposed gaining
some preference rights and selling
them ont. The local officers and the
commissioner decided for Young and
against VanNostrum. The acting
secretary orders d modification of
this decision. He says, while Van
NoStrum cannot acquire any rights
IL he matter, the government is not
stopped from action upon, informa-
ton 1t has. gained, and he directs
cance' 'lation of Yourg's claim.
The decision of Judge Deadv of
the United States district court. in
Oregon, with reference to the appli-
cation OF the long and short haul
section of the Interstate commerce
law, is in substantial accord with tho
principle recently laid down by the
| Interstate commerce commission
He holds that Il railroad lima which
runs from Portland, Oregon, to San
francisco in competition with other
lines wholly by water or partly by
rail AMI partly by water may make
Its throagh rates conform to theirs.
though in 40 doing it may have to
charge less for the whole distance
than 1t charges to and from interme-
di"te points. Judge Deadv laws
doYv. /" broad principle that freight
carried in aua from II comnetitive
point ways Carried uu Ter sub.